So it would be effective at preventing your site from being used as training data.

“you have no bills, no job, no agency, no control. You are carried around to familiar and unfamiliar places at random whether you want to or not. Large unfamiliar creatures are constantly around you. You cannot communicate with your captors handlers, they only react when you scream.”

I’ve never launched a rocket and he’s launched more than Kerbal Space Agency.

I thought you were talking about Stardew and was wondering how much of the game I was still missing out on.

Yar me hearty 🏴‍☠️

Borderlands 3 launching as an Epic exclusive saved me from making the mistake of purchasing it. By the time is was available elsewhere reviews were pretty universal on it not being worthwhile.

And when you went to investors you would just tell them you’ve increased your customers by 170% and leave out the part that they aren’t buying anything. You might try to make more money from investors than you’re losing in free books.

The developers get paid a flat rate for allowing their game to be free, not per download. You are not sending the developer any money and allowing epic to inflate their user numbers (up 167% !!!) to investors.

It’s not about “there’s no point discussing opposition because there won’t be an election anyway,” it’s about “don’t wait until 2028 to act and hope on voting your way out of fascism.”

If it looks like a slop and sounds like a slop…

The last protests in the USA also made a point of minimalizing any disruption they might cause as much as possible so they could be easily and safely ignored.

Boy do Americans roll over and show their belly at the slightest bit of difficulty.

“If there’s no one telling me what to do how will I know what to do?”

population that will riot in the streets of the president so much as sneezes wrong.

Right, the citizens of France hold their elected officials accountable. Americans don’t.

Beyond labor, the No Kings protests were, numerically, some of the largest in US history. They didn’t do much…

I agee, the “don’t actually cause any trouble” protests, despite being some of the largest in US history, seem to have not slowed the decent into fascism at all. Maybe it was the whole “everyone clean up after yourselves and go back to work tomorrow like nothing happened so this can be easily ignored and forgotten” strategy.

I’m in an org that’s currently seeding strategic industries in the area, in preparation for 2028.

If there’s no resistance before 2028 then the US will have gone full Handmaid’s Tale by then.

“You don’t understand, France has a significantly smaller population! That makes it easier for them to get more people to protest for some reason! The larger population of the US means there’s nothing we can do but go about our lives like this is acceptable and hope we can vote our way out of fascism in 3 years!”

You don’t all need to be at the same place to protest. Everyone in <community a> should be protesting outside their local government offices. People across the country at <community b> should be protesting in front of their local government offices.

On the 26 of October 22 the government of France announced plans to increase the retirement age by 2 years.
Less than 3 months later protests began which led to massive disruption to the country.

The US decends into a full blown fascist dictatorship following the Hitler playbook (imprison/deport “undesirables” and invade a nearby country) and citizens say no action can be taken for over 2 years because it’s too hard to stand up for principles and morals.

People who have been in situations where having a gun would have made things better tend to not be around anymore to post about it.

Oh, that’s Jason Pargin. People might recognize his pen name David Wong.

Because “everyone else is doing the same thing” isn’t a form of dismissing the problem and burying your head in the sand.

US exceptionalism once again.

“We’re not shit, everyone is shit! But we’re better at being shit than everyone else!”

Okay then.

Capitalism is a shit system, but it took ~200 years to corrupt to this point because the power is more distributed (at first).

The US is reaching the average lifespan of an Empire. Capitalism has not been particularly good at preventing collapse, it has been about average.

I’m forced to give it the worst possible reading

You’re literally not, in any way, forced to do that. That is a decision you have made.